Tanya Leighton, Berlin and
Bureau, New York are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the Berlin based artist,
Jonas Lipps. The exhibition marks the second half of a gallery exchange between the two galleries, which began with Julia Rommel鈥檚 exhibition in Berlin. Lipps鈥 works are psychologically charged and subtly politically, often taking up predominant systems of social order: schools, shopping centers, transportation networks, nation states and jails. These environments of control find themselves permeated by spoofs on their branding and design, malapropisms, anachronisms and associative inventions. Similarly, the pieces in Lipps鈥 latest body of work on view at Bureau are painted, drawn and collaged using both existing images and surreal interventions. Lipps repurposes paper napkins, the seals of correctional facilities and advertisements, placing them within environments that are charged with freudian spillages, libidinal utterances and personal preoccupations.